Can a man use his religious beliefs to avoid working with women in the workplace? The dispute has gone from the cultural realm to the legal one.Last month, a former sheriff’s deputy in Lee County, N.C., filed a lawsuit alleging he was fired over objections to training a female employee alone. The plaintiff, Manuel Torres, 51, told the sheriff’s office that he could not be alone with the female deputy in his patrol car because it would violate his religious beliefs.The practice of avoiding one-on-one time with a …